I couldn’t have written a book like Genuine Fakes without the expertise and enthusiasm that so many colleagues, friends and professionals have offered over the course of this project. I owe a huge debt to: Stuart Baldwin, Nadia Berenstein, Paul Brinkman, Matthew Brown, Angela Burnley, Jill Darnell, Luke Dickens, Mike deRoos, Holly Dunsworth David Evans, Jay Ford, Mitch Fraas, Erik Goldstein, Benjamin Gross, Christopher Hallett, John Hopkins, Eliza Howlett, Bruce Hunt, Nicholas James, Lindsay Keiter, Katie Langenfeld, Rachel Lauden, Eleanor Louson, Marc Kissel, Christopher Manias, Alex McAdams, Scott McGill, Marissa Nicosia, Garrett Ozar, Linda Pellett, Becca Peixotto, Michael Press, Nick Pyenson, Megan Raby, Stephen Raby, Natasha Reynolds, Lukas Rieppel, Nicole Rudolph, Aitor Ruiz-Redondo, Josefrayn Sanchez-Perry, Clare Sauro, Christopher Schaberg, Ken Schwarz, Stephanie Strauss, Peter Tallack, Paul Taylor, Erin Thompson, Amara Thornton, Christopher Tunnell, Mike Urbancic, Gregory Urwin, Eric Williams, Audra Wolfe, Rebecca Wragg Sykes and Donna Yates.
Additionally, many institutions have been kind enough to help facilitate the research for Genuine Fakes through access to archives, copies of publications and materials, reprinting materials as well as interviews: Alaska Department of Fish and Game, American Museum of Natural History, Caverne du Pont d’Arc, Deutsches Museum, Eterneva, Explore.org, Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the Howard Tracy Hall Foundation, Hyperallergic, Morgan Library & Museum, Museum of Innovation and Science, Natural History Museum (London) and Oxford Natural History Museum. I would especially like to offer my gratitude to the Interlibrary Loan librarians at the University of Texas at Austin – this book simply would not have been possible without their efforts.
My editors Jim Martin and Anna MacDiarmid have made this project, oh, so much better through their most welcome editorial feedback, suggestions and directions. Krystyna Mayer’s copyediting has helped sharpen and clarify the manuscript. Holly Zemsta was kind enough to share her thoughts on many early drafts and to truly appreciate every bizarre factoid this project dredged up. Over the last couple of years, my parents, Steve and Sonja Pyne, and my sister, Molly Pyne, have offered their never-flagging interest in this project’s stories.
And, above all, I am most grateful to Stan Seibert for his never-ending optimism that Genuine Fakes would become a real book.